It should have read “…much-maligned, lifelong…” Smiley, smiley, smiley! I want to keep hammering home the fact that Republicans, just like Democrats, have both smart AND stupid constituents. That *that *is something I have to emphasize is a sad statement about the prejudice that exists among many Democrats, some in my own family (who get self-conscious when we’re in her car together, listening to NPR–she can’t really call her own sister a conservative moron…or can she?).
You know, in my original post, I was being purposely gentle and sensitive, to amuse myself, and to get my points across, but also to try to steer the conversation toward a more polite course. As a thread it was game at first but, like a party that’s fallen off the fun curve, it was starting to get ugly. Redirecting the course was none of my business, really, and certainly no one asked me to do it. Honestly, in my contrarian heart, I was hoping someone would wheel on me and reply with a vituperative smear of my intelligence and character, in keeping with the tone the thread was taking (which MikeF, was it?, started politely enough, if somewhat provocatively in the last bit of his gambit).
I’m kind of sorry that no one took the bait to crush me, what fun it would have been!, but it does shed new light on an old prejudice I confess to: that, as a group, Democrats are incorrigibly mean-spirited and spiteful. Everyone has been really nice to me here, considering I’m a Republican. Maybe it would be possible to have dinner together without one of us leaping across the table with a knife, or even getting agita.